NACIONALNA POLITIKA KOMUNISTIČKE PARTIJE JUGOSLAVIJE – DOKTRINA I PRAKSA 1919-1945.
NATIONAL POLICY OF THE YUGOSLAV COMMUNIST PARTY 1919-1945.

Summary/Abstract: The national policy of the Yugoslav communists until the end of the Second World War was focused on the struggle against the Serbian national movement. Although general conditions varied, the essential aims of this policy remained the same - to limit Serbian national interests and to favor those of the so-called oppressed nations in Yugoslavia, the Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians and all other ethnic minorities. With the external encouragement of the Comintern in the period between the wars the Yugoslav Communist Party used internal purges to get rid of those who did not comply with their political views, imitating and approaching the model of their Stalinist counterpart. The national policy of the Yugoslav Communist Party acquired its extreme form during the Second World War when it turned on the Ravnogorski movement as its main opponent. By exploiting the false accusations of collaboration with the enemy and of treason made against this movement, the Yugoslav Communist Party wished to neutralize the struggle of the Serbs and to relieve the Croats of responsibility for committing genocide. At the same time, despite the proclaimed intention of the Communist Party of restoring Yugoslav unity the country was broken up during the war and given a federal structure, once again at the expense of the Serbs. The events of the postwar period came as the logical consequence of a bad policy.

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